Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me

Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends.

You can't address yourself to women by speaking a language which no average woman will understand. In my opinion, it's wrong.

If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all.

The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.

He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!